To reach this goal, people need: ACCESS to health care close to where they live – e.g. nurses, midwives, doctors TRAINED HEALTH WORKERS: need to have appropriately-trained health care workers to provide care

Map of where computer centres were set up – shows the reach that AMREF and its partners had to get to ensure nurses in rural and remote areas could access the training more than 100 eLearning centres set up Almost 30 nursing schools also ran the eLearning training program

NOTE: AMREF handed program over to Ministry of Health in 2011 AMREF works in such a way that our programs can carry on through the gov’t, community or other local infrastructure. Our goal is always to pass off the project in such a way that it can be sustained over the long term

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LIVES LOST •3,000 + children die of malaria every day •177,000 women died in pregnancy or childbirth in 2010Illnesses and deaths are largely preventable with access to health care Source: World Health Organization

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HOW?“Creating vibrant networks of informed and empoweredcommunities and health careproviders working together in strong health care systems.”

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CHALLENGE•Thousands of nurses, midwives, doctors andothers ready to be trained.•Traditional classroom-based training wouldtake hundreds of years (literally!), and takehealth care workers out of the community

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SOLUTION eLearning: the computer and network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge, including web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classroom opportunities and digital collaboration. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and CD- ROM. It can be self-paced or instructor-led and includes media in the form of text, image, animation, streaming video and audio

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NURSES’ TRAINING: Kenya SUCCESSES:By 2011: •More than 8,000 nurses enrolled •More than 4,500 graduated •Nurses able to upgrade skills while continuing to care for patients •Financial support for nurses through special loan program